LEAD FACILITIES MAINTENANCE TECHNICIAN - Berry Global, Inc

The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technicians primary function is to support all assigned asset area maintenance activities. This position requires continued “on the tools” responsibilities on an as needed basis. On a regular scheduled basis, the Lead Facilities Maintenance Technicians meets with the planner, area engineer, and Operations to review open work orders, current equipment issues and help set priorities. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician then works with the Shift Mechanics based on those priorities, assists in obtaining needed parts, offers technical guidance to technicians to ensure jobs are completed correctly, and in a timely manner. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technicians is the primary contact for reliability issues and corrective actions requested by operations. Other tasks as assigned by management.

Safety:

• Performs all tasks in a safe manner, wearing required PPE and following all safety regulations.
• BBS participation.
• Know and understand all Safety rules and guidelines to ensure work is performed safely.
• Have a clear understanding of and strictly comply with LOTO policy.

Responsibilities:

1. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will address any outages seen and will ensure, with the Maintenance Manager, that outages are worked until compliance.
2. Work with Operations to address equipment issues an as needed basis. Support the dispatching of daily jobs with operations, planners and engineers.
3. Compile daily activities as needed for each shift.
4. Contact and schedule outside resources and contractors to support daily workload.
5. Contact additional resources when needed.
6. Be a primary trainer in the Department for PM’s, PdM, and utilizing reliability technology.
7. Attend Asset Meetings, Shift Takeover Meetings.           

People:

1. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will work with planning schedule overtime and vacation coverage based on the roster in their work area. They will look ahead and work with planning and the Reliability Engineer to ensure that their team is adequately staffed from a skill standpoint and take the appropriate measures. They will work with the Maintenance Manager to get the right personnel in the right area in order to run the operation in the most successful manner for that shift.
2. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will help to resolve conflicts among team members and will refer issues to higher authority when needed.
3. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will assist the Maintenance Manager in understanding training and development needs for associates as well as help execute the development of individuals.

Communication:

1. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will serve as a conduit for 2-way communication for feedback between operators and maintenance resources in order to work in a collaborative manner.
2. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will coordinate with operations ensuring any down time is utilized effectively. They will also communicate with Planners any exceptions to the operations schedule so that appropriate adjustments can be made to the maintenance schedule.
3. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician is responsible for communication and direction to technicians in the morning meetings. This includes opening the meeting with safety topics and discussion and directing emergency work that is outside of the plan.

Critical Success Factors:

1. Safety – Ability to create an environment that promotes your well-being and fosters two-way communication and job satisfaction.
2. Integrity - Demonstrating honesty in behavior, earning trust by meeting commitments, acting in accordance with Berry’s values and policies, avoiding conflicts of interest, demonstrating ethical resolve in adverse circumstances, rejecting unethical or unsafe shortcuts when they appear advantageous
3. Interpersonal Relationships - Communicating results, ideas and needs to supervisor and team, seeking other people’s support, supporting others ideas and actions, establishing good professional working relationships, valuing differences and diversity
4. Collaboration - Developing effective working relationships and communications with supervisor and team, listening and responding positively, requesting ideas and opinions, supporting the work of others, supporting team decisions.
5. Development Self / Others - Learning by doing, eagerly taking on new situations, responding positively to performance feedback, making interest, preference and career goals known, taking action to learn and develop, learning from other perspectives and experience, proactively seeking available resources and information on subjects related to his / her work area.
6. High Performance Focus - Seeking to understand Berry’s business goals and how his / her job contributes to them, working with supervisor to define meaningful performance objectives, delivering quality work and results
7. Driving for Change / Initiative - Identifying new ways and improvements to existing problems and conditions, proactively seeking ways to improve company, organization or personal performance.
8. Accountability - Setting high standards of performance for him / herself and meeting those standards, accepting direction and feedback from others, taking ownership for and accepting consequences of his / her actions.
9. Results Oriented & Demonstrated Ability to Execute - Focused on results verses action or activity. Demonstrates tenacity to assertively work through challenges and accomplish objectives.

Other:

1. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will attend downtime meetings, schedule meetings, safety meetings, asset meetings, safety reviews for their work area, and down day planning meetings.
2. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will be responsible for the accurate completion of all paperwork including but not limited to work orders, KPI’s, incident reports and the distribution technical data.
3. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will coordinate and assist technicians with trouble-shooting activities. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will refer to the Reliability Engineer for root-cause solutions to recurring problems. They will follow the resource allocation procedure when problems are occurring.
4. The Lead Facilities Maintenance Technician will be responsible for fulfilling the tasks as outlined in the daily task lists.

Physical demands:

1. Ability to stand and walk 12 hours or more a day on concrete, solid metal or corrugated metal surfaces to perform production duties.
2. Ability to sit while driving and operating material handling equipment 1- 3 hours per shift.
3. Ability to sit while entering data into computers, reviewing data, completing reports, etc.
4. Ability to push a wheeled cart filled with scrap, weighing up to 400 lbs., through manufacturing area.
5. Employee must be able to climb, bend, stoop and crawl.
6. Employee must be able to lift up to 75 pounds repeatedly.
7. Required to frequently ascend and descend up to three flights of stairs over extremely fast moving machinery.
8. Required to safely access fast moving machinery which includes rolls with inward nip points.  

Work Environment:

1. Area may or may not be air conditioned or heated, and may be humid and hot or cold depending on seasonal conditions.
2. Exposure to hot and/or abrasive surfaces.
3. Required to be in tight spaces on occasion and to heights daily.
4. Possible exposure to noise levels over 90 decibels for 12 hours at certain locations.
5. Moving machinery or moving objects on production floor.
6. Floor surfaces slippery at times.
7. Exposure to chemicals which may cause eye or skin irritation and/or burns, and irritation to respiratory system.
8. Exposure to static electricity on occasion.
9. Exposure to and use of sharp implements at times.
10. Exposure to outside elements on occasion.

Mental Abilities:

1. Ability to make decisions regarding work priorities.
2. Ability to read charts and document numbers and events on paper and in computer.
3. Ability to read electrical indicators and laboratory equipment indicators.
4. Ability to follow written and verbal instructions.  
5. Ability to interact with digital and basic computerized record & control systems.

COMPENTENCIES-

1. Technical Mastery

• • Mechanical Aptitude.
  • Boiler Maintenance Experience.
  • Industrial Facility Maintenance Experience.
  • Microsoft Office.
  • Ergonomics.
  • Trouble shooting skills.
  • JDE.

1. Process Management
   • Understanding asset capability.
   • Product Knowledge.
   • Continuous Improvement.
2. Communication
   • Develop communication plans (i.e.-business changes, event changes, etc.).
   • Driving Berry core values.
3. Change Leadership & Management
   • Establish a sense of urgency and business case.
   • Empower employees.
   • Aligning key stakeholders.
4.  People Leadership
   • Motivating, inspiring, and energizing employees.
   • Conflict resolution.
   • Coaching and counseling.
   • Performance management clear and concise written communication.
5. Creativity –
   • Can adapt/transfer new methods or ideas to situations to maximize results.

1. Integrity –
• Takes responsibility for mistakes, respects confidentiality, completes commitments on time.
2. Team & Winning Spirit –
• Ability to work effectively with others to achieve goals.
3. Time Management –
• Makes effective use of time.
• Has sense of timing and orderly process.
• Get things done within expected time frame.
4. Planning –
• Plans beyond today.
5. Process Management –
• Understanding asset capability.
• Product Knowledge.
• Continuous Improvement.
6. Building Relationships –
• Builds trust.
• Can interact at all levels of management.
7. Computer Capability –
• Effectively able to perform basic data entry without errors.

Education: 

• High School Diplomia or GED equilvant, required.  Associate's Degree in Maintenance related field, equivalent work experience, preferred.
• Six Sigma Certification (Black or Green) and TPM- Preferred, but not required.
• 5+ years of manufacturing experience.